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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2011-10-22 12:22 am
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In the wild October nighttime

Man, today was both Simchas Torah and the two hundred and sixth anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar and I missed it. I should have sunk a ship with a machzor, or something.

Also Ursula K. Le Guin's birthday, which I am grateful for.

Brass Monkey, "Dr Fauster's Tumblers/The Night of Trafalgar/Prince William"

But our gallants all the while after fighting through the day
Were beating up and down the dark sou'west of Cadiz Bay

The Klezmatics, "Simkhes-Toyre"

Afile di shtern mit der levone
Zenen gegangen trinken vayn

Tori Amos, "Black-Dove (January)"

They don't know you've already lived
On the other side of the galaxy

P.S. I don't know if you would call this a bonus, but looking to see if I had any genuine science-fiction songs on my computer:

Eliza Carthy, "Space Girl"

She said that Venus was too hot and Saturn not much fun
And bug-eyed monsters tended to be just a trifle dumb
She said I'd need a blaster and a freezer gun
And I did, I did, I did
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Ships were made for sinking, whiskey made for drinking. If we were made of cellophane...

[identity profile] cucumberseed.livejournal.com 2011-10-22 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
I should have sunk a ship with a machzor, or something.

I should have liked to see that!
sovay: (Sovay: David Owen)

[personal profile] sovay 2011-10-22 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
I should have liked to see that!

I read it the ArtScroll translation of the Song of Songs and it committed suicide.

I'd have thought of something.

[identity profile] ladymondegreen.livejournal.com 2011-10-25 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
So true. Especially the redacted bit.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-10-28 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
Especially the redacted bit.

"Open to me, my beloved, for my head is full of dew-like thoughts of Abraham . . ."

[identity profile] ladymondegreen.livejournal.com 2011-10-28 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
My friend [livejournal.com profile] osewalrus used to throw in bits of the Monty Python tobacconist's shop routine when 'reading' from the Art Scroll Song of Songs translation, an we would alternate between laughing and saying "No! You're making that part up." Sadly, he almost never was.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2011-10-22 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
Black-Dove is one of my favorites, and the line you quote is my favorite part in the song.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-10-22 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
Black-Dove is one of my favorites, and the line you quote is my favorite part in the song.

Thank you. It was a toss-up between that and "Flying Dutchman."

Take a trip on a rocket ship, baby, where the sea is the sky
I know the guy who runs the place and he's out of sight . . .
'Cause they can't see what you were born to be
They can't see me
They can't be what they can't believe
They can't see what you see

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2011-10-22 10:22 am (UTC)(link)
Excellent! Thank you.

[identity profile] handful-ofdust.livejournal.com 2011-10-22 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
These are great! Thanks a lot.

I'm just getting to that point in the process where I realize that I've skipped a chapter I'm now going to have slate right into the exact middle of the stuff I've already written. It's hilarious to me that this must apparently happen every time, but...there you go.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-10-22 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
These are great! Thanks a lot.

Welcome! Enjoy.

It's hilarious to me that this must apparently happen every time, but...there you go.

Embrace the tradition!

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2011-10-22 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
I should have sunk a ship with a machzor, or something.

That would be an impressive thing indeed. Please just be sure it's a ship that deserves being sunk?

Thanks for the tracks! I'm looking forward to listening.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-10-22 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
Please just be sure it's a ship that deserves being sunk?

Well, yes. I am not an indiscriminate siren.

Thanks for the tracks! I'm looking forward to listening.

Enjoy!

not an indiscriminate siren

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2011-10-22 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
Kind of like not being a tame lion?

(It's another line that belongs in a poem)

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2011-10-22 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, yes. I am not an indiscriminate siren.

I didn't think you were, but it's always good to have confirmation of these things. Thank you.

Enjoy!

I am. Thanks!

[identity profile] nineweaving.livejournal.com 2011-10-23 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
Fabulous soundtrack!

Nine
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-10-23 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Fabulous soundtrack!

Glad you like!
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[personal profile] genarti 2011-10-24 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, marvelous!

And have you seen the vid to "Space Girl"? That's the first context in which I heard that song, and I greatly enjoy it.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-10-24 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
And have you seen the vid to "Space Girl"? That's the first context in which I heard that song, and I greatly enjoy it.

No—link?
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[personal profile] genarti 2011-10-25 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Right here! If you scroll down a bit there's a YouTube link as well as a downloadable version.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-10-25 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
If you scroll down a bit there's a YouTube link as well as a downloadable version.

That was awesome. Thank you!
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